DO you believe that the GLOBAL WARMMING can trigger GLOBAL FREEZING in less than 150 years from now???

Answer 1

Global warming and Ice Age periods are cyclical with or without man's help. If global warming continued, the melting of the water in the caps would upset the ocean currents which help regulate the planet's weather and temperature and another ice age could, in theory, begin. Something to keep in mind; go 150 years in the past and look at the concerns of our ancestors and there ability to imagine 150 years into the future. None, of them, even the brightest were anywhere close or even compehended the advances that were possible. Think about it! So we to must consider that the advances over the next 150 years if things continue as they are will be caparatively exponential so that our concerns of today will be as trivial as our ancestor's concerns were of yester year. Not saying that global warming is not possible or that another ice age could not be triggered, it must, however; be understood that certain special interest groups and political agendas use this theory as a tool for other purposes, mainly energy control, freedom control, people control. This is true since when considering things on a global scale to be concerned about humans have a much higher risk of becoming extinct by World War III or a comet or asteroid impact than a climate change in the next 150 years. We know that at any moment the earth could be hit by an extinction level event of a comet or asteroid which would have the ability of almost instantly wiping everything off the planet. Strange that the pundits of global warming are not as concerned about this more certain threat to our survival and promoting awarness and research about it. So if you want to be concerned look to the stars, look into the blackness of space and hope we have the technology in time to see all the approaching space bodies that could impact earth and that we have developed the technology to stop them or deflect them or all the fossil fuel usage in the world will not matter.

Answer 2

It sure can. I can think of two ways this can happen.

1. Global warming warms the atmosphere and the oceans. The oceans evaporate more water into the atmosphere, which then clouds, rains, and snows more often. Maybe it snows so much in the Northern country that the snow does not melt in the summer. Then the snow starts piling up and forming glaciers and ice sheets. You get global freezing.

2. Global warming warms up the Greenland ice sheet, causing it to melt fresh water into the north Atlantic. This disrupts the Gulf Stream, causing it to go to Africa instead of Scandinavia. As a result, Europe, at the same latitude as central Canada, turns really cold, and perhaps glaciers will form.

Further, global warming is real but will be halted when we run out of fossil fuels. To me the running out of this fuel is the worse crisis. Once the warming halts, the normal progression of ice ages will favor the start of a new Ice Age.

Answer 3

Historically the planet has warmed and cooled lots of times. We can now see that mankind is accelerating this process. The catch 22 is that while increased greenhouse gases are warming the planet, they have discovered that the soot in the air is causing a % decrease in sunlight reaching the surface resulting in a counter acting cooling effect. If it were not for the soot pollution in the air, the warming would be worse than it already is.
IMHO the only thing that will stop this trend (caused by mankind) is to greatly slow or stop the exponential population growth that is causing the problem.

Answer 4

ok for all you fruit cakes who actually think that global warming means that there will be no ice age cause the earth is getting warmer are stupid!!!! but on the good side if the global warming gets bad and we do have a ice age, there will prob be some intense snowmachining up in canada here eh

Answer 5

Global freezing was the media scare of about 20 years ago—it could be recycled to boost media sales.

Answer 6

global warming has 2 effects, extreme heat or extreme cold. if we are to heavy, do to ice caps melting then we will slow or spin down and drift towards the sun, if we are to light we will spin faster and out of our orbit in the opposite direction and get colder.

Answer 7

Yes, all that has to occur is enough fresh water melts on either Greenland or Antarctica to shut off the thermohaline conveyor current in the oceans.

Answer 8

No, because since it is warmming it will get hotter and not cooler

Answer 9

There will never be another ice age!